North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: MTU of the Internet?
> perhaps this is one of the not-so-obvious benefits of running a web > proxy cache such as squid. the greater internet can have larger > packets floating around, and the local proxy of the ISP can deal with > horrible tcp stacks, retransmissions and client machine with small > receive buffer sizes. And imagine having 2 interfaces on this machine, one with MTU=1500 and one with MTU=576. -- Phil Howard | [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] phil | [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] at | [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] milepost | [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] dot | [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] com | [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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